"She was this tall, skinny kid with glasses," said Harrison, the former Scott Central girls basketball coach who resigned last month. "She was in third or fourth grade and would come around and watch her sister play. I would have never imagined what she would become."

Not the state's all-time leading scorer — by a wide margin.

Not a two-time state champion, nor the second most prolific scorer in the history of girls high school basketball.

And now, after leading the nation in scoring for the second time in three years, he didn't foresee Vivians blossoming into a back-to-back Miss Basketball winner, becoming the first player to win The Clarion-Ledger's top honor in consecutive years since Valencia McFarland of Raymond did so in 2009 and 2010.

Vivians, who led Scott Central to a runner-up finish in 2A in 2014, posted a record 46.2 points and 14.3 rebounds per game this season, numbers that seemed effortless at times.

Her 68 points against Newton in the South state semifinals — a game she fouled out in — tied a girls state record, and she posted less than 40 points four times as a senior. But her crescendo came Jan. 24 against Union, when she became the state's all-time leading scorer before finishing her career with 5,745 points, more than 700 points better than the previous mark set by Mary Kathryn Whittle in 2007.

"I've come a long way," Vivians admitted, though she's harder on herself than anyone else.

She claims she was "terrible" as an eighth grader, when she tied her sister, then a senior, for the team lead in points scored.

"I could only play in the post," said Vivians, whose 1,617 points this season are also tops in Mississippi history, regardless of gender. "I didn't start shooting from the outside until my ninth grade year."

She evolved quickly.

By her sophomore year, Vivians grew into the state's premier offensive threat. She had grown out of her tall, lanky frame, blossoming into a physical Division I prospect who could score from anywhere on the court

"This is strictly my opinion," said Harrison, who won three championships in 19 seasons at Scott Central, "I don't think there's any doubt she's the most explosive player that's ever played in Mississippi. Not only on offense, but rebounding and blocking shots.

"I know how she did it. It wasn't done 1-on-1. She had two and three people on her at a time."

Vivians, a Mississippi State recruit, will play in the SchollyMe All-World Game on April 19 in Irvine, Calif., which pits some of nation's elite senior prospects against each other.

It's the last competitive game she'll play in before arriving in Starkville this summer, closing the chapter on her high school career before opening another under MSU women's basketball coach Vic Schaefer.

"You're getting a skillset with an SEC-made frame," Schaefer said of Vivans, a top-30 prospect. "She has that mentality that you have to have. She's had the ball in her hands for five years now. That's something, at any college team, you want to have that person on your team that can go and get that shot for you at the end of the game."

She did the latter plenty during her five-year career at Scott Central. And she doesn't plan on doing anything else any time soon.

"I can't believe I've done this and my high school career is over," Vivians said. "The name they've given me, 'Queen Victoria,' it means a lot because I'll have to live up to that name in the state of Mississippi and hopefully one day in the WNBA."

That's a long way from the tall, skinny kid with glasses Harrison met years ago.